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A standing order of the Clay County Justice Court governing the taking of pleas from non-juvenile defendants at the jail, framed by the justice of the peace's dual magistrate and judicial roles under the Code of Criminal Procedure.
Applies to non-juvenile criminal defendants appearing before the Clay County Justice Court at the jail. Procedural information only; not legal advice.
Justice Court of Clay County Standing Order Regarding Taking Pleas at the Jail (Non-Juvenile Defendants). Under Code of Criminal Procedure Arts. 2.09 and 4.11, the justice of the peace has two separate roles in the criminal justice system — duties as a magistrate and duties as a judge of the justice court — and the order sets how and when the court takes pleas from non-juvenile defendants held at the jail consistent with those roles.
Justice Court of Clay County Standing Order Regarding Taking Pleas at the Jail (Non-Juvenile Defendants). Under Code of Criminal Procedure Arts. 2.09 and 4.11, the justice of the peace has two separate roles in the criminal justice system — duties as a magistrate and duties as a judge of the justice court — and the order sets how and when the court takes pleas from non-juvenile defendants held at
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-06 from the TOPICs custody scan (text layer read). Clay countywide Justice Court order.
A standing order of the 97th Judicial District Court sealing the files in cases in which Child Protective Services or the Department of Family and Protective Services appears as petitioner, in the counties comprising the 97th Judicial District.
Dallas County Standing Order Regarding Children, Pets, Property and Conduct of the Parties (Family District Courts General Orders, current edition F2026/05, revised Jan. 31, 2026 — a re-adoption of the same operative text by the current bench: Hon. Kim Brown (254th), Vonda Bailey (255th), Sandre Streete (256th), Ashley Wysocki (301st), Sandra Jackson (302nd), LaDeitra Adkins (303rd), and Andrea D. Plumlee (330th)), as registered in the statewide TOPICs local-rules registry (posted 01/11/2023). The order "applies in every divorce suit and every suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed in Dallas County" automatically, without request: child-disruption prohibitions, pet protection, party-conduct restraints, divorce-case property/records/insurance freezes with specific authorizations, mandatory petition attachment, and its TRO-to-temporary-injunction lifecycle.